Word Information 

★affair :

[plural]

l events and activities relating to the government, politics, economy etc of a country, region, or the world    →  e.g. current affairs

 

Ÿl   things relating to your personal life, for example what is happening within your family or your financial situation

 

[countable]

l    [usually singular] something that happens, especially something shocking, in public or political life

l    a sexual relationship between two people, especially when one of them is married to someone else     →   e.g.  have an affair

Ÿ   

★ Noun Suffixes : 

lŸ  -ist – person e.g. psychiatrist(精神病醫生) 

l  -ian – of or belonging to e.g. obstetrician(產科醫生)

l  -ess – denoting female persons e.g. seamstress(女裁縫師)

l  -ar /-er/-eur/-ier/-or/-ur – agent e.g. ambassador(大使); astronomer(天文學家)

    

★ omni- : all

l  omnipotent : having unlimited power and able to do anything  

l  omniscient : having or seeming to have unlimited knowledge

l  omnipresent : present or having an effect everywhere at the same time

★ 3C

 ⇒ an abbreviation often used in Taiwan for “computer, communication, and consumer electronics"

★ consumption :

l  the amount used or eaten

l  the act of using, eating, or drinking something

l  tuberculosis (= a serious disease of the lungs) 

★ spect- : to look

l  spectator : a person who watches an activity, especially a sports event, without taking part

l  inspect : to look at something or someone carefully in order to discover information, especially about their quality or condition

l  spectacular : very exciting to look at  

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White Anglo-Saxon Protestant

⇒ an informal, sometimes disparaging term for a group of high-status and influential White Americans of English Protestant ancestry. The term applies to a group who control disproportionate financial, political and social power in the United States.

 

WASP in Stuart Little

l   a 1999 American film

l   It is loosely based on the novel of the same name by E. B. White. It combines live action and computer animation.

l   The plot bears little resemblance to that of the book, as only some of the characters and one or two minor plot elements are the same.

Boat Race

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The Reader

l    a 2008 German-American romantic drama film based on the 1995 German novel of the same name by Bernhard Schlink.

l   It tells the story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who as a mid-teenager in 1958 had an affair with an older woman, Hanna Schmitz, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a guard at a Nazi concentration camp. Michael realizes that Hanna is keeping a personal secret she believes is worse than her Nazi past – a secret which, if revealed, could help her at the trial.

l   They develop a ritual of bathing and having sex, before which she frequently has him read aloud to her, especially classical literature, such as The Odyssey and Chekhov's The Lady with the Dog.

l    In a similar vein, he asserted that "the advancement and diffusion of knowledge" is "the only Guardian of true liberty."

 

l    James Madison, Jr. was a political theorist, American statesman, and served as the fourth President of the United States (1809–17). He is hailed as the "Father of the Constitution" for his pivotal role in drafting and promoting the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

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 The Way Through the Woods 

Rudyard Kipling

 They shut the road through the woods

 Seventy years ago.

 Weather and rain have undone it again,

 And now you would never know

 There was once a road through the woods

 Before they planted the trees.

 It is underneath the coppice and heath,

 And the thin anemones.

 Only the keeper sees

 That, where the ring-dove broods,

 And the badgers roll at ease,

 There was once a road through the woods.

 

 Yet, if you enter the woods

 Of a summer evening late,

 When the night-air cools on the trout-ringed pools

 Where the otter whistles his mate.

 (They fear not men in the woods,

 Because they see so few)

 You will hear the beat of a horse's feet, (appearing in Finding Forrester⇓)

 And the swish of a skirt in the dew,

 Steadily cantering through

 The misty solitudes,

 As though they perfectly knew

 The old lost road through the woods. . . 

 But there is no road through the woods.

 

 Concept Map: 

 vocabulary :

• undone : unfastened
•      coppice : an area of closely planted trees in which the trees are cut back regularly to provide wood

 

• heath : an area of land that is not used for growing crops, where grass and other small plants grow, but where there are few trees or bushes

 

• anemone : 銀蓮花

• ring-dove broods :

• badger : 獾

•  trout : 鱒魚

• otter : 水獺 

 

• swish : to (cause to) move quickly through the air making a soft sound
• canter : If a horse canters, it moves at quite a fast but easy and comfortable speed
• solitude : the situation of being alone without other people

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Finding Forrester

 Movie Clip (1:20~1:50)

 Quotes: 

“It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.”

- Charles Dickens

 

 

“You will hear the beat of a horse's feet.”  - Rudyard Kipling

 

 

“All great truths begin as blasphemies.”  - George Bernard Shaw

 

 

“Man is the only animal that blushes or needs to.”  - Mark Twain

 

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 Coming-of-age story

In genre studies, a coming-of-age story is a genre of literature and film that focuses on the growth of a protagonist from youth to adulthood. Coming-of-age stories tend to emphasize dialogue or internal monologue over action, and are often set in the past. The subjects of coming-of-age stories are typically teenagers. 

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An open ending is an ending to a story or novel where not all of the details are wrapped up and leave the reader wondering how it will end. The story ends in a cliffhanger or nail biter, where the readers long to discover what happens next.

❖Open ended stories are primarily of two types: situational and character-based.